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Four years after lockdown, frontline workers reflect on pandemic days

Looking back, moving on: Doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers say Covid-19 has left them life-altering lessons

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Many of the frontline workers contracted the coronavirus, fell ill or died as they tended to patients (File photo: Reuters)

Sohini DasAnjali SinghSanket Koul Mumbai, New Delhi
In April, Mumbai is typically hot and getting increasingly humid. Manjusha Patil (name changed on request) was making her way back from Covid-19 hospital duty to her apartment in the eastern suburbs of Mumbai. Having already completed a gruelling 12-hour shift, Patil felt exhausted, famished, and parched. She slowly ascended the stairs of her 26-storey building, her apartment situated on the 18th floor. 

The housing society had barred her from using the elevator, fearing she might transmit the virus to other residents. "Some of my neighbours were sympathetic, suggesting that if I sanitised the elevator after each use, it should

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